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04-15-2011, 02:10 PM
PLD Political Committee member Felix Jimenez has come out in protest at First Lady Margarita Cedeno's presidential pre-candidacy. The controversial former Minister of Tourism announced he was working on the Danilo Medina campaign. A February Gallup poll showed Medina as the favorite of the six pre-candidates who had publicly announced their intention to seek the PLD presidential nomination.
Cedeno was included in the list of PLD pre-candidates for the party's 26 June primary by the Central Committee. She was the only of the candidates not present when the nomination was made, and she is the only of the seven candidates to not have formally announced her wish to be the PLD candidate in the 2012 presidential election.
For months, though, her office has aired a major values-promoting campaign in the media and more recently major promotional advertisements have been appearing in the media. Many supporters of President Fernandez's re-election aspirations have said they would support the First Lady instead.
In an interview in Hoy, Jimenez objected to the candidacy on the grounds that Cedeno was a simple member of a base committee in the party and had not had a political career within the PLD. He said she has never directed an intermediary, municipal or provincial committee and was not a Central Committee member.
It is not unusual for a newcomer to rise to the ranks in politics. In the past, however, presidential candidates have always been nominated by the Political Committee, not the Central Committee.
Jimenez said it was as if a corporal in the army were allowed to rise to being Minister of the Armed Forces.
On Sunday, 10 April, the Central Committee authorized the addition of the First Lady's name to the list proposed by the Political Committee. The First Lady has yet to publicly accept the candidacy. The others are Danilo Medina, Franklin Almeyda, Rafael Alburquerque, Jose Tomas Perez, Radhames Segura and Francisco Dominguez Brito.
On Friday President Leonel Fernandez announced he would not be going down the road of modifying the Constitution to seek re-election and announced he would be neutral in the choice of the PLD candidate for the 20 May 2012 presidential election.
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Cedeno was included in the list of PLD pre-candidates for the party's 26 June primary by the Central Committee. She was the only of the candidates not present when the nomination was made, and she is the only of the seven candidates to not have formally announced her wish to be the PLD candidate in the 2012 presidential election.
For months, though, her office has aired a major values-promoting campaign in the media and more recently major promotional advertisements have been appearing in the media. Many supporters of President Fernandez's re-election aspirations have said they would support the First Lady instead.
In an interview in Hoy, Jimenez objected to the candidacy on the grounds that Cedeno was a simple member of a base committee in the party and had not had a political career within the PLD. He said she has never directed an intermediary, municipal or provincial committee and was not a Central Committee member.
It is not unusual for a newcomer to rise to the ranks in politics. In the past, however, presidential candidates have always been nominated by the Political Committee, not the Central Committee.
Jimenez said it was as if a corporal in the army were allowed to rise to being Minister of the Armed Forces.
On Sunday, 10 April, the Central Committee authorized the addition of the First Lady's name to the list proposed by the Political Committee. The First Lady has yet to publicly accept the candidacy. The others are Danilo Medina, Franklin Almeyda, Rafael Alburquerque, Jose Tomas Perez, Radhames Segura and Francisco Dominguez Brito.
On Friday President Leonel Fernandez announced he would not be going down the road of modifying the Constitution to seek re-election and announced he would be neutral in the choice of the PLD candidate for the 20 May 2012 presidential election.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)